State  cl  Illinois 


Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics 


Laws  governing  Free  Employment  Offices  and 
Private  Employment  Agencies  in  Illinois 
as  amended  and  in  force  on  and 
from  July  1,  1913. 


Published  by 

The  State  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Labor 

P.  H.  HART,  Secretary, 

Springfield 


Springfield,  III. 

Illinois  State  Journal  Co.,  State  Printers 

19  13 


BOARD  OF  COMMISSIONERS  OF  LABOR. 


M.  H.  Madden,  President ,  Chicago. 
Frank  B.  Mott,  Galesburg. 

J.  D.  Peters,  Carbondale. 


Secretary, 

P.  H.  Hart,  Springfield. 


FREE  EMPLOYMENT  OFFICES. 


Chicago. 

North  Side  Office,  826-828  North  Clark  Street. 

Souht  Side  Office,  732  South  Wabash  Avenue. 

West  Side  Office,  79-81  West  Randolph  Street. 

Peoria  Office,  512  South  Adams  Street. 

East  St.  Louis  Office,  Corner  Main  Street  and  Division  Avenue. 
Springfield  Office,  30 7%  South  Sixth  Street. 

Rockford  Office,  107  Kishwaukee  Street. . 

Rock  Island  and  Moline  Office,  Eighteenth  Street  and  Third  Aven 
Rock  Island. 

Richard  J.  Knight, 

Chief  Inspector  of  Private  Employment  Agencies, 

732  South  Wabash  Avenue,  Chicago. 


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FREE  EMPLOYMENT  OFFICES  IN  CERTAIN  CITIES. 


FREE  EMPLOYMENT  OFFICES. 


1.  Creation  of  offices  in  certain  cities— purpose 

— name. 

2.  Officers— how  appointed — salaries. 

3.  Duties  of  superintendent — registers— spec¬ 

ial  registers  not  open  to  inspection. 

4.  Reports  to  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics — 

circulation  of  reports. 

5.  Correspondence  with  employers  of  labor — 

advertising. 

6.  Annual  reports— collection  of  statistics. 


§  12. 
§  13. 

§  14. 
§  15. 

(Senate  Bill  No.  165,  Approved  June  21, 


§  7.  No  fee  to  be  charged— penalty  for  accepting 
§  8. 


“Applicant  for  employment”  and  “appli¬ 
cant  for  help”  defined. 

Sections  9, 10  and  11  repealed,  1909. 

Repealed,  1911. 

Printing,  blanks,  supplies,  etc.,  to  be  furn¬ 
ished  by  Secretary  of  State. 

Repeal. 

Emergency. 

1913,  in  Force  July  1,  1913.) 


An  Act  to  amend  section  1  of  an  Act  entitled ,  “ An  Act  relating  to 
(  employment  offices  and  agencies”  approved  and  in  force  May  11, 

1903. 

Section  1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois, 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly ::  That  section  1  of  an  Act  en¬ 
titled,  “An  Act  relating  to  employment  offices  and  agencies,”  approved 
*and  in  force  May  11,  1903,  be  amended  to  read  as  follows: 

§  1.  That  free  employment  offices  are  hereby  created  as  follows: 
One  in  each  city  of  not  less  than  fifty  thonsand  population,  one  in  two 
'or  more  contiguous  cities  or  towns  having  an  aggregate  or  combined 
population  of  not  less  than  fifty  thousand  population,  and  three  in  each 
|City  containing  a  population  of  one  million  or  over,  for  the  purpose  of 
receiving  applications  of  persons  seeking  employment  and  applications 
of  persons  seeking  to  employ  labor.  Such  offices  shall  be  designated 
'and  known  as  Illinois  Free  Employment  Offices. 

§  2.  Within  sixty  days  after  this  Act  shall  have  been  in  force,  the 
State  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Labor  shall  recommend,  and  the  Gov¬ 
ernor,  with  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate,  shall  appoint  a  super¬ 
intendent  and  assistant  superintendent  and  a  clerk  for  each  of  the  offices 
created  by  section  1  of  this  Act,  who  shall  devote  their  entire  time  to 
the  duties  of  their  respective  offices.  The  assistant  superintendent  or 
the  clerk  shall  in  each  case  be  a  woman.  The  tenure  of  such  appoint¬ 
ment  shall  be  two  years,  unless  sooner  removed  for  cause.  The  salary 
of  each  superintendent  shall  be  fifteen  hundred  dollars  ($1,500.00) 
per  annum,  the  salary  of  such  assistant  superintendent  shall  be  one 
thousand  two  hundred  dollars  ($1,200.00)  per  annum.  The  salary  of 
such  clerk  shall  be  one  thousand  dollars  ($1,000.00)  per  annum  together 
with  proper  amounts  for  defraying  the  necessary  costs  of  equipping  and 
maintaining  the  respective  offices. 

§  3.  The  superintendent  of  each  such  free  employment  office  shall, 
within  sixty  days  after  appointment,  .open  an  office  in  such  locality  as 


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shall  have  been  agreed  upon  between  such  superintendent  and  the  secre¬ 
tary  of  the  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics,  as  being  most  appropriate  for 
the  purpose  intended ;  such  office  to  be  provided  with  a  sufficient  number 
of  rooms  and  apartments  to  enable  him  to  provide,  and  he  shall  so 
provide  a  separate  room  or  apartment  for  the  use  of  women  registering 
for  situations  or  help.  Upon  the  outside  of  each  such  office,  in  position 
and  manner  to  secure  the  fullest  public  attention  shall  be  placed  a  sign 
which  shall  read  in  the  English  language,  Illinois  Free  Employment 
Office,  and  the  same  shall  appear  either  upon  the  outside  windows  or 
upon  signs  in  such  other  languages  as  the  location  of  each  such  office 
shall  render  advisable.  The  superintendent  of  each  such  free  employ¬ 
ment  office  shall  receive  and  record  in  books  kept  for  that  purpose 
names  of  all  persons  .applying  for  employment  or  help,  designating 
opposite  the  names  and  addresses  of  each  applicant,  the  character  of 
employment  or  help  desired.  Separate  registers  for  applicants  for 
employment  shall  be  kept,  showing  the  age,  sex,  nativity,  trade  or  oc¬ 
cupation  of  each  applicant,  the  cause  and  duration  of  non-employ¬ 
ment,  whether  married  or  single,  the  number  of  dependent  children 
together,  with  such  other  facts  as  may  be  required  by  the  Bureau  of 
Labor  Statistics  to  be  used  by  said  bureau:  Provided ,  that  no  special 
registers  shall  be  open  to  public  inspection  at  any  time,  and  that  such 
statistical  and  sociological  data  as  the  Bureau  of  Labor  may  require  shall 
be  held  in  confidence  by  said  bureau,  and  so  published  as  not  to  reveal 
the  identity  of  any  one :  And,  provided,  further ,  that  any  applicant  who 
shall  decline  to  furnish  answers  as  to  the  questions  contained  in  special 
registers  shall  not  thereby  forfeit  any  rights  to  any  employment  the 
office  might  secure. 

§  4.  Each  such  superintendent  shall  report  on  Thursday  of  each 
week  to  the  State  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  the  number  of  applications 
for  positions  and  for  help  received  during  the  preceding  week,  and  the 
number  of  positions  secured,  also  those  unfilled  applications  remaining 
on  the  books  at  the  beginning  of  the  week.  It  shall  also  show  the  num¬ 
ber  and  character  of  the  positions  secured  during  the  preceding  week. 
Upon  receipt  of  these  lists,  and  not  later  than  Saturday  of  each  week, 
the  secretary  of  the  said  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  shall  cause  to  be 
printed  a  sheet  showing  separately,  and  in  combination,  the  lists  received 
from  all  such  free  employment  offices. 

§  5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  such  superintendent  of  a  free 
employment  office  to  immediately  put  himself  in  communication  with 
the  principal  manufacturers,  merchants  and  other  employers  of  labor 
and  to  use  all  diligence  in  securing  the  cooperation  of  the  said  employers 
of  labor,  with  the  purposes  and  objects  of  said  employment  offices.  To 
this  end  it  shall  be  competent  for  such  superintendents  to  advertise  in 
the  columns  of  newspapers,  or  other  mediums,  for  such  situations  as  he 
has  applicants  to  fill,  and  he  may  advertise  in  a  general  way  for  the 
cooperation  of  large  contractors  and  employers  in  such  trade  journals 
or  special  publications  as  reach  such  employers,  whether  such  trade  or 
special  journals  are  published  within  the  State  of  Illinois  or  not. 

§  6.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  such  superintendent  to  make  re¬ 
port  to  the  State  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  annually,  not  later  than 
December  first  of  each  year,  concerning  the  work  of  his  office  for  the 


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year  ending  October  first  of  the  same  year,  together  with  a  statement  of 
the  expenses  of  the  same,  including  the  charges  of  an  interpreter  when 
necessary,  and  such  report  shall  be  published  by  the  said  Bureau  of  La¬ 
bor  Statistics  annually  with  its  coal  report.  Bach  such  superintendent 
shall  also  perform  such  other  duties  in  the  collection  of  statistics  of  labor 
as  the  secretary  of  the  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  may  require. 

§  7.  No  fee  or  compensation  shall  be  charged  or  received,  directly 
or  indirectly  from  persons  applying  for  employment  or  help  through 
said  free  employment  offices,  and  any  superintendent,  assistant  super¬ 
intendent  or  clerk,  who  shall  accept,  directly  or  indirectly,  any  fee  or 
compensation  from  any  applicant  or  from  his  or  her  representative,  shall 
be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  shall  be  fined 
not  less  than  twenty-five  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars  and  imprisoned 
in  the  county  jail  not  more  than  thirty  days. 

§  8.  The  term,  "applicant  for  employment,”  as  used  in  this  Act: 
shall  be  construed  to  mean  any  person  seeking  work  of  any  lawful  char¬ 
acter,  and  "applicant  for  help”  shall  mean  any  person  or  persons  seeking 
help  in  any  legitimate  enterprise;,  and  nothing  in  this  Act  shall  be 
construed  to  limit  the  meaning  of  the  term  work  to  manual  occupation, 
but  it  shall  include  professional  service,  and  all  other  legitimate  service. 

Sections  9,  10  and  11  repealed  by  Act  approved  June  15,  1909.. 
Section  12,  relating  to  fees  and  fines  and  disbursements  therefrom,  re¬ 
pealed  by  House  Bill  No.  311,  which  Act  provides  that  all  public  moneys 
of  the  State  be  paid  into  the  State  treasury.  Approved  June  9,  1911. 
In  force  July  1,  1911. 

§  13.  All  printing,  blanks,  blank  books,  stationery  and  such  other 
supplies  as  may  be  necessary  for  the  proper  conduct  of  the  business  of 
the  offices  herein  created  shall  be  furnished  by  the  Secretary  of  State- 
upon  requisition  for  the  same  made  by  the  suprintendents  of  the  several 
offices. 

§  14.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  in  conflict  herewith  are  hereby 
repealed. 

§  15.  Whereas,  An  emergency  exists,  therefore  this  Act  shall 
take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  passage.  Approved  May 
11,  1903.  In  force  May  11,  1903. 


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PRIVATE  EMPLOYMENT  AGENCIES. 


1.  License,  penalty  for  conducting  without —  § 

annual  fee— all  moneys  to  be  paid  into 
State  treasury— when— location  designa¬ 
ted  in  license  not  to  be  changed — except¬ 
ions — agency  where  not  to  be  located — 
application  for  license  to  be  filed  with  the 
Board  of  Labor  Commissioners— affidavit 
of  two  persons  as  to  character  of  applicant 
—license  for  one  year  only — application 
to  be  posted  and  published  in  daily  news¬ 
paper. 

§  2.  Bond  required— sureties— person  aggrieved 
may  maintain  an  action — claims  are 
assignable— assignee  may  enforce — other 
remedies. 

§  3.  Licensed  agent  to  keep  register— applicant 
for  employment— entries  in  English— 
what  to  be  recorded— fee— separate  regis¬ 
ter  applicant  for  help— what  to  be  re¬ 
corded— fee— wages— all  registers  open  for 
inspection— no  false  entries  on  register- 
licensed  agent  employing  solicitors  to  pro¬ 
vide  badge— name  of  solicitor  and  number 
of  license  to  be  filed  with  Commissioners 
of  Labor. 


§  4.  Registration  fee  not  to  exceed  two  dollars— 
when  at  actual  expense  for  applicant— re¬ 
cord  to  be  kept  of  references  of  applicant- 
receipt  for  registration  fee  to  be  given 
applicant  for  help  or  employment— fee, 
or  unused  portion  to  be  returned  to  appli¬ 
cant  on  demand — when — less  amount  of 
expense  incurred,  provided  no  position 
has  been  furnished— applicant  not  re¬ 
quired  to  subscribe  to  any  publication 
when— further  fee  may  be  agreed  upon— 
written  agreement  as  to  payment — not  to 
be  paid  by  applicant  before  position  is 
tendered— position  tendered,  not  accep¬ 
ted,  agent  to  refund  all  fees— when— agent 
must  have  order  for  employment  of  appli¬ 
cant — if  misrepresentation  is  made,  all  fees 
and  expenses  refunded — when — agent  to 
give  additional  receipt  for  fees  to  appli¬ 
cant  for  employment  or  help — form  re¬ 
quired — printing  required  on  back  of  all 
receipts — printed  card  to  be  furnished 
applicant  by  agent— what  to  contain — 
emnloyer  may  require  second  employee — 
when— fee  refunded— amount— when— 

exceptions — employee  to  be  furnished  sec¬ 
ond  place — when— fees  refunded— am¬ 
ount — when. 


Sections  three  (3),  four  (4),  and  five  (5)  of 
Act  to  be  posted  in  all  rooms  of  each 
agency  furnished  by  Board  of  Commis¬ 
sioners. 


5.  Agent  not  to  solicit  fees  from  employer— 
when — sending  persons  to  work  outside 
of  city — information  to  be  furnished — 
duplicate  to  be  filed. 

6.  Agent  prohibited  from  sending  females  to 
questionable  places  must  not  permit  per¬ 
sons  of  questionable  character  to  frequent 
agency — must  not  place  any  child  in  em¬ 
ployment  in  violation  of  Child  Labor  Law 
—penalty  for  violation— provision  against 
fraudulent  notices  or  advertisements— all 
printed  matter  of  agencies  to  contain  name 
and  address,  etc. — no  agency  to  print  or 
publish  name  similar  to  the  Illniois  Free 
Employment  Office — all  written  matter 
sent  out  by  agents  to  contain  definite  in¬ 
formation  of  agency — false  information 
prohibited — also  division  of  fees. 

7.  Definition  of  private  employment  agency — 
charitable  institutions  not  included — of 
fees — of  privilege. 

8.  Commissioners  of  Labor  and  Chief  Inspector 
to  enforce  law — Chief  Inspector  recom¬ 
mended  to  Governor  for  appointment  by 
Board  of  Commissioners  of  Labor— term 
of  office  defined— appoint,  with  approval 
of  Governor,  one  inspector  for  every  fifty 
agencies — bi-monthly  visits  to  every 
agency — badge — enforce  provisions  of  law 
—no  other  occupation— complaints  against 
agents  orally  or  in  writing — one  day’s 
notice,  in  writing,  of  complaint— hearing 
within  one  week— further  time  one  week 
— reasonable  notice  of  hearing  given 
agents — calendar  of  all  hearings  to  be  kepi 
— same  posted — where — time  given  one 
dav — result  of  hearing  rendered  in  8  days 
— license  may  be  refused  or  revoked— for 
cause— when  applicant  for  license  given 
opportunity  for  hearing— refusal  to  issue 
license,  or  license  revoked,  subject  to 
certiorari— revocation  of  license  in  effect 
after  seven  days— cause  for  refusal  of 
another  license— penalty  for  violation — 
Labor  Commissioners  may  institute  crim¬ 
inal  proceedings — employ  legal  services. 

§  9.  Power  of  Chief  Inspector  and  assistants  in 
enforcing  law. 

§  10.  Salary  of  Chief  Inspector— payment  of— 
bond— traveling  and  hotel  expenses— 
supplies— office  rooms— furnishing— assis¬ 
tants  on  office— assistant  inspectors — 
salaries— payment  of. 

§  11.  Construction  of  law. 

§  12.  Repeal  sections  9,  10,  11,  Act  of  1903. 


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(Senate  Bill  No.  418,  Approved  June  7,  1911,  in  Force  July  1,  1911.) 

An  Act  to  amend  sections  1  and  10  of  “An  Act  relating  to  Private 

Employment  Agencies  and  to  repeal  parts  of  a  certain  Act  relating 

thereto 

Section  1.  Be  it  enacted  Toy  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois, 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly:  That  sections  1  and  10  of  an  Act 
entitled,  “An  Act  relating  to  private  employment  agencies  and  to  repeal 
parts  of  a  certain  Act  relating  thereto/*  approved  June  15,  1909,  in  force 
July  1,  1909,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  amended  to  read  as  follows: 

§  1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois ,  repre¬ 
sented  in  the  General  Assembly:  That  no  person  shall  open,  keep  or 
carry  on  any  employment  agency  in  the  State  of  Illinois  unless  every 
such  person  shall  procure  a  license  therefor  from  the  State  Board  of 
Commissioners  of  labor.  Any  person  who  shall  open  or  conduct  any  such 
agency  without  first  procuring  such  license  shall  be  guilty  of  a  mis¬ 
demeanor  and  shall  be  punishable  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  fifty  dollars 
($50.00)  and  not  exceeding  two  hundred  dollars  ($200.00),  or  on 
failure  to  pay  such  fine,  by  imprisonment  for  a  period  not  exceeding  six 
months,  or  both,  at  the  discretion  of  the  court.  Such  license  shall  be 
issued  by  the  State  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Labor,  the  fee  for  which 
in  cities  having  a  population  of  fifty  thousand  or  over  shall  be  fifty 
dollars  ($50.00)  annually  and'  a  fee  of  twenty-five  dollars  ($25.00) 
annually  in  all  cities  containing  less  than  fifty  thousand  population. 
All  moneys  received  by  the  said  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Labor  from 
whatever  source,  shall  be  paid  into  the  State  treasury  on  or  before  the 
30th  day  of  September  and  the  31st  day  of  March  of  each  year  following 
the  adoption  of  this  Act. 

.  Every  license  shall  contain  the  name  of  the  person  licensed,  a  desig¬ 
nation  of  the  city,  street  and  number  of  the  house  in  which  the  person 
licensed  is  authorized  to  carry  on  the  said  employment  agency,  and  the 
number  and  date  of  such  license.  Such  license  shall  not  be  valid  to 
protect  any  place  other  than  that  designated  in  the  license  unless  con¬ 
sent  is  first  obtained  from  the  State  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Labor, 
or  the  chief  inspector  of  employment  agencies  and  until  the  written 
consent  of  the  surety  or  sureties  on  the  bond  required  to  be  filed  by 
section  2  of  this  Act  to  such  transfer,  be  filed  with  the  original  bond. 
No  such  agency  shall  be  located  on  premises  where  intoxicating  liquors 
are  sold,  excepting  cafes  and  restaurants  in  office  buildings.  The  appli¬ 
cation  for  such  license  shall  be  filed  with  the  State  Board  of  Commis¬ 
sioners  of  Labor  not  less  than  one  week  prior  to  the  granting  of  said 
license  and  the  State  Board  of  Labor  Commissioners  shall  act  upon 
such  application  within  thirty  (30)  days  from  the  time  of  application. 
Such  application,  shall  be  accompanied  by  the  affidavits  of  two  persons 
who  have  known  the  applicant  or  the  chief  officer  thereof,  if  a  compora- 
tion,  for  two  years,  stating  that  the  said  applicant  is  a  person  of  good 
moral  character.  The  license  shall  run  for  one  year  from  the  date  there¬ 
of  and  no  longer,  unless  sooner  revoked  by  the  State  Board  of  Commis¬ 
sioners  of  Labor.  Such  application  shall  be  posted  in  the  office  of  the 
State  Board  if  Commissioners  of  Labor  or  in  the  office  of  the  chief 
inspector  of  private  employment  agencies,  from  the  date  of  filing  there¬ 
of,  and  until  such  application  is  acted  upon :  and  before  anv  license  shall 


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be  granted,  notice  of  such  application  shall  be  published  on  three  (3) 
distinct  days  by  the  State  Board  of  Labor  Commissioners  in  some  daily 
newspaper  of  general  circulation  throughout  the  county  within  which 
the  applicants  desires  to  locate  such  agency.  (Section  1  amended  and 
approved  June  7,  1911,  in  force  July  1,  1911.) 

§  2.  Bond.]  The  State  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Labor  shall 
require  such  person  to  file  with  his  application  for  a  license  a  bond  in  due 
form  to  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  for  the  penal  sum  of  five 
hundred  dollars  ($500.00),  with  one  or  more  sureties,  to  be  approved  by 
the  said  State  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Labor  and  conditioned  that 
the  obliger  will  conform  to  and  not  violate  any  of  the  duties,  terms, 
conditions,  provisions  or  requirements  of  this  Act.  If  any  person  shall 
be  aggrieved  by  the  misconduct  of  any  such  licensed  person,  such  person 
may  maintain  an  action  in  his  own  name  upon  the  bond  of  said  employ¬ 
ment  agency,  in  any  court  having  jurisdiction  of  the  amount  claimed. 
All  such  calims  shall  be  assignable,  and  the  assignee  thereof  shall  be 
entitled  to  the  same  remedies  upon  the  bond  of  such  licensed  person, 
or  otherwise,  as  the  person  aggrieved  would  have  been  entitled  to,  if 
such  claim  had  not  been  assigned.  Any  claim  or  claims  so  assigned  may 
be  enforced  in  the  name  of  such  assignee.  Any  remedies  given  by  this 
section  shall  not  be  exclusive  of  any  other  remedy  which  would  otherwise 


§  3.  Register — reference — agents.]  It  shall  be  the  duty  of 
every  such  licensed  person  to  keep  a  register,  in  which  shall  be  entered 
in  the  English  language  the  date  of  every  accepted  application  lor 
employment,  name  and  address  of  the  applicant  to  whom  employment  is 
offered  or  promised,  written  name  and  address  of  the  person  to  whom 
applicant  is  sent  for  emplovment  and  amount  of  the  fee  received.  Such 
licensed  person  shall  also  enter,  in  a  separate  register,  m  the  English 
lanonage,  the  name  and  address  of  every  accepted  applicant  for  help, 
the  date  of  such  application,  the  kind  of  help  requested,  the  names  of 
the  person  sent,  with  the  designation  of  the  one  employed,  the  amount 
of  the  fee  received  and  the  rate  of  wages  agreed  upon.  The  aforesaid 
register  of  applicants  for  employment  and  for  help  shall  be  open  during 
office  hours  to  inspection  by  the  State  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Labor, 
their  duly  qualified  agents,  and  the  officers  created  by  this  Act. 

No  such  licensed  person,  or  his  employees,  shall  knowingly  make  any 
false  entries  in  such  register.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  licensed  per¬ 
sons  who  employ  agents  or  solicitors  to  provide  each  of  the  said  em¬ 
ployees  with  a  suitable  badge,  containing  said  licensed  person  s  name, 
and  address  of  such  agency  and  number  of  such  license,  and  shall  file 
with  the  State  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Labor  the  name  ot  each  sucn 


8  4,  Fees — receipts.]  A  registration  fee  not  to  exceed  two  dol¬ 
lars  ($2*00)  may  be  charged  by  such  licensed  agency  when  such  agency 
shall  be  at  actual  expense  in  advertising  such  individual  applicant,  or 
in  looking  up  the  references  of  said  applicant.  In  all  such  cases  a 
complete  record  of  such  references  shall  be  kept  on  file,  which  record 
shall,  during  all  business  hours,  be  open  for  the  inspection  of  the  said 
State  Board  of  Labor  Commissioners,  the  chief  inspector  of  employ¬ 
ment  agencies  or  his  assistants.  For  such  registration  fee  a  receipt  shall 


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be  given  to  said  applicant  for  help  or  employment,  giving  name  of  snch 
applicant,  date  of  payment  and  character  of  position  or  help  applied 
for.  Said  registration  fee  shall  be  returned  to  said  applicants  on  de¬ 
mand,  after  thirty  (30)  days  and  within  sixty  (60)  days  from  date 
of  the  receipt,  less  the  amount  that  has  been  actually  expended  by  said 
licensed  agency  for  said  applicant,  and  an  itemized  account  of  such 
expenditures  shall  be  presented  to  said  applicant  on  request  at  the  time 
of  returning  the  unsued  portion  of  such  registration  fee,  provided  no 
position  has  been  furnished  by  said  licensed  agency  to  said  applicant. 

No  licensed  person  or  persons  shall,  as  a  condition  to  registering  or 
obtaining  employment  for  such  applicant,  require  such  applicant  to  sub¬ 
scribe  to  any  publication  or  exact  any  other  fees,  compensation  or  re¬ 
ward,  other  than  the  registration  fee  aforesaid,  and  a  further  fee,  the 
amount  of  which  shall  be  agreed  upon  between  such  applicant  and  such 
licensed  person,  to  be  payable  at  such  time  as  may  be  agreed  upon  in 
writing,  but  the  further  fee  aforesaid  shall  not  be  received  by  such 
licensed  person  before  the  applicant  has  been  tendered  a  position  by  said 
licensed  person.  In  the  event  the  position  so  tendered  is  not  accepted 
by  or  given  such  applicant,  said  licensed  person  shall  refund  all  fees 
requested  by  said  applicant,  other  than  the  registration  fees  aforesaid 
within  three  (3)  days  after  demand  is  made  therefor.  No  such  licensed 
person  shall  send  out  any  applicant  for  employment  without  having 
obtained  a  bona  fid&  order  therefor,  and  if  it  shall  appear  that  no 
employment  of  the  kind  applied  for  existed  at  the  place  where  said 
applicant  was  directed,  said  licensed  party  shall  refund  to  such  applicant 
within  five  (5)  days  after  demand,  any  sum  paid  by  said  applicant  for 
transportation  in  going  to  and  returning  from  said  place  and  all  fees 
paid  by  said  applicant. 

In  addition  to  the  receipt  herein  provided  to  be  given  for  registra¬ 
tion  fees,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  licensed  person  to  give,  to  every 
applicant  for  employment  from  whom  other  fee  or  fees  shall  be  received 
an  additional  receipt,  in  which  shall  be  stated  the  name  of  such  appli¬ 
cant  the  date  and  amount  of  such  other  fees  and  to  every  applicant  for 
help  from  whom  other  fee  or  fees  shall  be  received,  and  additional 
receipt,  stating  the  name  and  address  of  said  applicant,  the  date  and 
amount  of  such  other  fee  or  fees,  and  the  kind  of  help  to  be  provided. 
All  receipts  shall  have  printed  on  the  back  thereof,  in  the  English 
language,  the  name  and  address  of  the  State  Board  of  Commissioners  of 
Labor  and  the  Chief  Inspector  of  Employment  Agencies. 

Every  such  licensed  person  shall  give  to  every  applicant  for  employ¬ 
ment,  a  card  or  printed  paper  ’ containing  the  name  of  the  applicant, 
the  name  and  address  of  such  employment  agency,  and  the  written  name 
and  address  of  the  person  to  whom  the  applicant  is  sent  for  employment. 
If  an  employee  furnished  fails  to  remain  one  week  in  a  situation,  through 
no  fault  of  the  employer,  a  new  employee  shall  be  furnished  to  the  appli¬ 
cant  for  help,  if  he  so  elects,  or  three-fifths  (3/5)  of  all  fees  paid  re¬ 
turned  within  four  (4)  days  after  demand:  Provided said  appli¬ 
cant  for  help  notifies  said  licensed  person  within  three  (3)  days  of  the 
failure  of  the  applicant  .to  accept  the  position  or  the  applicants  dis¬ 
charge  for  cause.  If  the  employee  is  discharged  within  one  week  with- 


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out  said  employee’s  fault,  another  position  shall  be  furnished,  or  three- 
fifths  (3/5)  of  all  fees  paid  returned  to  the  annlicant  for  employment. 

Every  such  person  shall  post  in  a  conspicuous  place  in  each  room  of 
such  agency,  sections  three  (3),  four  (4)  and  five  (5)  of  this  Act 
which  shall  be  printed  in  languages  which  persons  commonly  doing 
business  with  such  agency  can  understand.  Such  printed  matter  shall 
also  contain  the  name  and  address  of  the  State  Board  of  Labor ,  Commis¬ 
sioners  and  the  Chief  Inspector  of  Employment  Agencies,  and  shall  be 
furnished  by  the  State  Board  of  Labor  Commissioners. 

§  5.  Employment  contract.]  No  such  licensed  person  shall 
solicit  or  receive  any  fees,  compensation  or  reward  from  any  employer, 
in  payment  for  such  person’s  refusal  to  register  or  obtain  employment 
for  any  applicant  for  employment.  Whenever  such  licensed  person, 
or  any  other  acting  for  him,  agrees  to  send  one  or  more  persons  to  work 
as  contract  or  railroad  laborers,  in  any  place  outside  the  city  in  which 
such  agency  is  located,  the  said  licensed  person  shall  give  each  of  such 
laborers,  in  a  language  with  which  laborers  are  familiar,  a  statement 
containing  the  following,  items :  Name  and  address  of  the  employer, 
name  and  nature  of  the  work  to  be  performed,  wages  offered,  destination 
of  the  person  employed,  terms  of  transportation  and  probable  duration 
of  employment;  and  a  duplicate  of  such  statement  shall  be  kept  on  file 
in  the  office  of  the  licensed  person  sending  out  such  laborers. 

§  6.  Character  of  employment — fraud.]  No  such  licensed  per¬ 
son  shall  send,  or  cause  to  be  sent,  any  female  help  or  servants,  or 
inmate  or  performer,  to  enter  any  questionable  place  or  place  of  bad 
repute,  house  of  ill  fame,  or  assignation  house,  or  to  any  house  or  place 
of  amusement  kept  for  immoral  purposes,  or  place  resorted  to  for  the 
purpose  of  prostitution,  or  gambling  house,  the  character  of  which  such 
licensed  person  knows,  either  actually  or  by  reputation. 

No  such  licensed  person  shall  knowingly  permit  questionable  char¬ 
acters,  prostitutes,  gamblers,  intoxicated  persons,  or  procurers  to  frequent 
such  agency.  No  such  licensed  person  shall  accept  any  application  for 
employment  made  by  or  on  behalf  of  any  child,  or  shall  place  or  assist 
in  placing  any  such  child  in  any  employment  whatever,  in  violation  of 
the  child  labor  law,  approved  May  15,  1903,  and  in  force  July  1,  1903, 
and  an  Act  to  regailate  the  employment  of  children,  approved  June  9, 
1897,  and  in  force  July  1,  1897.  For  the  violation  of  any  of  the  pro¬ 
visions  of  this  section,  the  penalty  shall  be  a  fine  of  not  less  than 
fifty  dollars  ($50.00)  and  not  more  than  two  hundred  dollars  ($200.00), 
or  imprisonment  in  the  county  jail  or  house  of  correction  for  a  period 
of  not  more  than  one  year,  or  both,  at  the  discretion  of  the  court,  in 
addition  to  the  revocation  of  such  person’s  license.  No  such  licensed 
person  shall  publish  or  cause  to  be  published  any  fraudulent  notice  or 
advertisements  of  such  employment  agencies  by  means  of  cards,  circu¬ 
lars  or  signs,  and  in  newspapers  and  other  publications;  and  all  of  its 
letter  heads,  receipts  and  blanks  shall  contain  the  name  and  address  of 
such  employment  agency,  and  shall  state  in  all  such  notices  the  fact 
that  such  licensed  person  is  or  conducts  an  employment  agency.  No 
agency  shall  print,  publish  or  paint  on  any  sign,  window,  or  insert  in 
any  newspaper  or  publication  a  name  similar  to  that  of  the  Illinois 
Free  Employment  Office.  All  written  communications  sent  out  by  such 


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licensed  person,  directly  or  indirectly,  to  any  person  in  regard  to  help 
or  employment,  shall  have  contained  therein  definite  information,  that 
such  person  is  an  employment  agent;  and  no  snch  licensed  person  shall 
knowingly  give  any  false  information  or  make  any  false  promise  con¬ 
cerning  employment  to  any  applicant  who  shall  register  for  employment 
or  help.  No  snch  licensed  agent  shall  divide  fees  with  or  pay  a  commis¬ 
sion  to  any  person  to  whom  applicants  are  sent  for  employment  or  help. 

§  7.  Definitions.]  Any  person,  firm  or  corporation,  who  for  hire 
or  with  a  view  to  profit,  shall  undertake  to  secure  employment  or  help, 
or  through  the  medium  of  card,  circular,  pamphlet  or  any  medium  what¬ 
soever,  or  through  the  display  of  a  sign  or  bulletin,  offer  to  secure 
employment  or  help,  or  give  information  as  to  where  employment  or 
help  may  be  secured,  shall  be  deemed  a  private  employment  agency  and 
be  subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  provided  that  charitable  institu¬ 
tions  are  not  included.  The  term  fee,  as  used  in  this  Act,  means  money 
or  a  promise  to  pay  money.  The  term  fee  also  means  and  includes  the 
excess  of  money  received  by  any  such  licensed  person  over  what  he  has 
paid  for  transportation,  transfer  of  baggage,  or  lodging  for  any  appli¬ 
cant  for  employment.  The  term  fee,  as  used  in  this  Act,  also  means 
and  includes  the  difference  between  the  amount  of  money  received  by 
any  person  who  furnishes  employees  or  performers  for  any  entertain¬ 
ment,  exhibition  or  performance,  and  the  amount  paid  by  the  said 
person  to  the  employees  or  performers  whom  he  hires  to  give  such  enter¬ 
tainments,  exhibition  or  performance.  The  term  privilege,  as  used  in 
this  Act,  means  and  includes  the  furnishing  of  food,  supplies,  tools  or 
shelter  to  contract  laborers,  commonly  known  as  commissary  privileges. 

§  8.  Enforcement.]  The  enforcement  of  this  Act  shall  be  en¬ 
trusted  to  the  State  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Labor,  and  an  officer  to 
be  known  as  the  Chief  Inspector  of  Private  Employment  Agencies, 
which  officer  shall  be  recommended  by  the  State  Board  of  Commissioners 
of  Labor  and  appointed  by  the  Governor  of  the  State  and  whose  term  of 
office  shall  be  for  the  period  of  the  incumbency  of  the  Governor  appoint¬ 
ing  him,  or  until  his  successor  is  appointed.  He  may  appoint  by  and 
with  the  approval  of  the  Governor  one  (1)  inspector  for  every  fifty  (50) 
licensed  agencies  or  major  fraction  thereof,  who  shall  make  at  least  bi¬ 
monthly  visits  to  every  such  agency.  Said  inspectors  shall  have  a  suit¬ 
able  badge  which  they  shall  exhibit  on  demand  of  any  person  with 
whom  they  may  have  official  business.  Such  inspectors  shall  see  that 
all  the  provisions  of  this  Act  are  complied  with,  and  shall  have  no  other 
occupation  or  business.  Complaints  against  any  such  licensed  person 
may  be  made  orally  or  in  writing  to  the  State  Board  of  Labor  Com¬ 
missioners  or  to  the  Chief  Inspector  of  Private  Employment  Agencies, 
and  reasonable  notice  thereof,  not  less  than  one  (1)  day  shall  be  given 
in  writing  to  the  said  licensed  person  by  serving  upon  him  concise  state¬ 
ment  of  the  facts  constituting  the  complaint,  and  the  hearing  shall  be 
had  before  the  State  Board  of  Labor  Commissioners  or  the  Chief  In¬ 
spector  of  Private  Employment  Agencies  as  the  State  Board  aforesaid 
shall  designate,  within  one  week  from  the  date  of  the  filing  of  the  com¬ 
plaint  and  no  adjournment  shall  be  taken  for  a  period  longer  than  one 
(1)  week.  Eeasonable- notice  of  the  place  of  hearing  of  any  complaint 
shall  be  given  to  such  licensed  person  complained  against.  A  calendar 


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of  all  hearings  shall  be  kept  by  the  State  Board  of  Labor  Commission¬ 
ers  of  the  complaints  they  are  to  hear,  and  by  the  chief  inspector  of  those 
he  is  to  hear,  and  shall  be  posted  in  a  conspicuous  place  in  its  or  his 
public  office  for  at  least  one  (1)  day  before  the  date  of  such  hearing. 
The  result  of  such  hearings  shall  be  rendered  within  eight  (8)  days 
from  the  time  the  matter  is  finally  submitted.  The  said  State  Board 
of  Commissioners  of  Labor  may  refuse  to  issue  and  may  revoke  any 
license  for  any  good  cause  shpwn  within  the  meaning  and  purpose  of 
this  Act,  and  when  it  is  shown  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  said  Board 
of  Commissioners  of  Labor  that  any  person  is  guilty  of  any  immoral, 
fraudulent  or  illegal  conduct  in  connection  with  the  conduct  of  said 
business,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  State  Board  of  Commissioners 
of  Labor  to  revoke  the  license  of  such  person,  but  notice  of  such  charges 
shall  be  presented  and  reasonable  opportunity  shall  be  given  said  li¬ 
censed  person  to  defend  himself  in  the  manner  and  form  heretofore 
provided  in  this  section  of  the  Act.  Whenever  said  Board  of  Commis¬ 
sioners  of  Labor  shall  refuse  to  issue  or  shall  revoke  the  license  of  any 
such  employment  agency,  said  determination  shall  be  subject  to  review 
on  writ  of  certiorari.  Whenever  for  any  cause  such  license  is  revoked 
said  revocation  shall  not  take  effect  until  seven  (7)  days  after  such  re¬ 
vocation  is  officially  announced,  and  such  revocation  shall  be  consid¬ 
ered  good  cause  for  refusing  to  issue  another  license  to  said  person  or 
his  representative,  or  to  any  person  with  whom  he  is  to  be  associated 
in  the  business  of  furnishing  employment  or  help.  The  violation  of  any 
provision  of  this  Act  except  as  provided  in  section  one  (1)  and  six  (6), 
shall  be  punishable  by  a  fine  of  not  to  exceed  twenty-five  dollars 
($25.00),  and  any  city  magistrate,  judge  of  a  municipal  court,  police 
justice,  justice  of  the  peace  or  any  inferior  magistrate  having  original 
jurisdiction  in  criminal  cases,  shall  have  power  to  impose  said  fine,  and 
in  default  of  payment  thereof  to  commit  to  the  county  jail  or  house 
of  correction  the  person  so  offending  for  a  period  not  exceeding  thirty 
(30)  days.  The  said  State  Board  of  Labor  Commissioners  or  the  Chief 
Inspector  of  Employment  Agencies  or  any  of  the  inspectors  created  by 
this  Act,  may  institute  criminal  proceedings  for  its  enforcement  before 
any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction.  The  State  Board  of  Commissioners 
of  Labor  shall  employ  legal  advice  or  services  whenever  in  its  opinion 
such  advice  or  services  are  necessary  in  or  to  the  enforcement  of  this 
Act. 

§  9.  Power.]  The  Chief  Inspector  of  Private  Employment 
Agencies  and  all  the  inspectors  created  by  this  Act  shall  have  full  power 
to  execute  and  serve  all  warrants  and  process  of  law  issued  by  any  jus¬ 
tice  of  the  peace  or  police  magistrate,  or  by  any  court  having  jurisdiction 
under  the  law  relating  to  employment  agencies  in  the  same  manner 
as  any  constable  or  police  officer,  may  serve  and  execute  such  processes, 
or  may  arrest  on  view  and  without  warrant,  any  unlicensed  person 
detected  by  them  actually  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  Act 
and  may  take  such  person  so  offending  before  any  court  having  juris¬ 
diction  of  the  offense,  and  make  proper  complaint  before  such  court 
which  shall  proceed  with  the  case  in  the  manner  and  form  provided  by 
law. 


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§  10.  Salaries.]  Such  chief  inspector  of  private  employment 
agencies  shall  receive  a  salary  of  three  thousand  six  hundred  dollars 
($3,600.00)  per  annum,  to  be  paid  monthly  upon  vouchers  therefor  filed 
with  the  Auditor  of  Public  Accounts  and  approved  by  the  Governor. 
Such  inspector  shall  furnish  a  bond  payable  to  the  State  of  Illinois  in 
the  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars  ($5,000.00),  said  bond  to  be  approved 
by  the  Governor  and  filed  with  the  Secretary  of  State.  The  necessary 
traveling  and  hotel  expenses  of  the  chief  inspector  and  his  deputies, 
the  Commissioners  of  Labor  and  their  secretary  and  such  other  necessary 
office  expenses,  shall  be  allowed  upon  itemized  accounts  rendered  therefor 
and  approved  by  the  Governor.  The  chief  inspector  shall  also  be 
allowed  the  necessary  printing,  stationery  and  postage,  .also  be  fur¬ 
nished  a  suitable  room  or  rooms  and  necessary  office  furniture  and 
assistants,  such  as  a  clerk,  one  woman  investigator  of  domestic  agencies 
and  stenographer  as  the  office  requires,  accounts  therefor  to  be  rendered 
and  approved  in  the  manner  required  by  this  Act.  The  other  inspectors 
provided  for  in  this  Act  shall  receive  a  salary  of  $1,500  per  annum,  pay¬ 
able  monthly  upon  the  certificate  of  the  chief  inspector  of  private  em¬ 
ployment  agencies  that  such  services  have  been  actually  rendered  under 
•  his  direction. 

(Section  10  amended  and  approved  June  7,  1911.  In  force  July 

.1,  1911.) 

§  11.  Construction'.]  Should  one  or  more  of  the  provisions  of 
this  Act  be  held  invalid,  such  invalidity  shall  in  no  manner  affect  any 

Iof  the  valid  provisions  hereof. 

§  12.  Sections  9,  10  and  11  of  an  Act  relating  to  employment 
offices  and  agencies  approved  May  11,  1903,  and  all  Acts  and  parts  of 
Acts  inconsistent  herewith  are  hereby  repealed. 

Approved  June  15,  1909.  In  force  July  1,  1909. 


